ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Ancestral Honour, Oaths and Battle Formations (verses 64–74)

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• What grammatical distinction separates nuḥmā from naḥmī?
• What does al-muḥjarīn refer to in verse 64?
• What rhetorical technique dominates fa-ayyu al-majdi illā qad walīnā?
• Which trait does al-sāʿī convey when applied to Kulaib?
• How should qarīnah be understood in the animal scene of verse 66?
• What action is pictured by tajudhdhu al-ḥabl?
• What does yamīn mean in ʿaqadū yamīnan?
• What is dhimār in amnaʿahum dhimāran?
• Which morphological category includes amnaʿahum and awfāhum?
• What is Khazāzā in verse 68?
• What chiefly powers the rhetoric in rafadnā fawqa rifdi al-rāfidīnā?
• What is described by al-jillah al-khūr?
• What does al-darīn refer to?
• What is the grammatical form al-ḥābisūn?
• Which voice and person does uṭiʿnā have?
• What circumstance is contrasted with obedience in verse 70?
• What is the opposite of al-tārikūn in verse 71?
• What rhetorical relation joins sakhiṭnā and raḍīnā?
• What does al-aymanīn mean in verse 72?
• What relationship does banū abīnā signal?
• What is the syntactic role of ṣawlatan in verse 73?
• What distinguishes ṣālū from ṣulnā?
• What is the contextual meaning of yalī in fīman yalīhim?
• Which root underlies ābū and ubnā?
• What does muṣaffadīnā mean in verse 74?
• Why does verse 74 contrast the results of two wings?
• What effect does repeated wa-naḥnu create?
• How does the root ʿ-Q-D develop across verses 66–67?
• How should the captive imagery in verse 74 be interpreted?
• What transition follows this section in the poem?